US aircraft carrier "exhausted" because of Russian ships following?

This information was reported by Politexpert, citing an official source from the US Navy, saying that the USS Gerald R. Ford - the most expensive aircraft carrier in the history of the US Navy - had a problem with its steering system while being followed by a Russian spy ship in the East Coast of the US.

The incident occurred in January 2018. At that time, the aircraft carrier CVN-78 was on a sea trial of new systems before returning to the US Navy shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia.

Politexpert added that at the time of the incident with the CVN-78 aircraft carrier, the destroyer USS Cole, which was tasked with tracking the Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov, was forced to intervene when the Russian ship approached at an unsafe distance from the Ford.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Cole entered the waters between the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and the Russian ship, while sailors on the ship prepared its missile systems to fire.

However, the US Navy confirmed that the engine failure of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford had nothing to do with being followed by a Russian spy ship.

Along with the information published by Politexpert, Business Insider magazine also said that the expensive aircraft carrier's engine failure was not too surprising because right from the beginning of the testing process, USS Gerald R. Ford still had a series of problems.

According to US military expert Roger Thompson of Business Insider, the testing of the USS Gerald R. Ford at this time is quite hasty. "I am not exaggerating when I say that half of the systems on it are not working. Their pilots have a long history of not being qualified in combat training.

For example, my book documents many failures (of them) in simulated air battles against Israeli, British, Canadian and Australian pilots. It's a big pile of garbage," expert Roger Thompson emphasized.

In his book, Mr. Thompson commented that the new aircraft carrier was "a thing of the past" and "a relic of World War II," and called on the Pentagon to focus on ships more suitable for modern wars.

"There is no major power in the world that operates that many aircraft carriers anymore. The Japanese don't operate aircraft carriers anymore. Many countries that used to operate many aircraft carriers, like Canada and Australia, eventually gave them up because they weren't worth the money," he said.

Finally, this expert emphasized that the US spending more than 13 billion USD to build a ship like the USS Gerald R. Ford is an irreparable mistake.